Wednesday, 23 February 2011

The future is closer than you think, flying cars are ready to buy now.



The Parajet Skycar is the world's first street legal flying car. It may look more like a dune buggy, and it flies more like a paraglider than the cars in Futurama, but you can buy one now for £55k. The car was taken from London to Timbuktu - 3700 miles - by the creator and a former British army officer showing it can cope with the extremes of the Sahara, (and driving in London!).

See more on the Parajet website. If only that was a referral link and my readers could be persuaded to buy one..

Perhaps this is more like the image that 'flying car' brings to mind:






UPDATE: After writing this, I browsed to XKCD and had a 'Randall, get out of my head' moment:

Flying Cars
Posted by Stuff that matters, stuff that don't at 15:12

26 comments:

  1. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 15:33

    that would be brilliant

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  2. G23 February 2011 at 15:40

    lol crazy vid

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  3. !sense!23 February 2011 at 15:50

    Imagine the accidents.

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  4. D22 Zone23 February 2011 at 15:52

    Man flying cars will be the future one day, probably not in our lifetime though!

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  5. Con Queso23 February 2011 at 17:02

    Just what I need, MORE energy consumption!

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  6. D423 February 2011 at 17:39

    I... Want... One...

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  7. Brendan23 February 2011 at 17:53

    thats awesome

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  8. ed23 February 2011 at 19:44

    and then there would be flying traffic lights too?

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  9. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 20:31

    when everyone has a flying car there is going to be no limits!

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  10. Galfraz23 February 2011 at 22:58

    That looks really cool, also really expensive though.

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  11. Lhosreiff23 February 2011 at 23:08

    This is THE coolest thing. The price-tag is absolutely ridiculous. Surely the materials didn't equal a quarter of the cost.

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  12. Bubi24 February 2011 at 00:38

    cool ,maybe they should create the flying suit too

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  13. Les24 February 2011 at 03:31

    Trains are the way to go. Trains, trains everywhere.

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  14. Fang24 February 2011 at 05:56

    It IS a car that flies, but not like the ultimate hoovercraft kind of thing.

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  15. obi24 February 2011 at 07:22

    cool thanks for posting.

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  16. Toto24 February 2011 at 09:00

    nice blog buddy!

    Followed and will support daily!
    http://all-around-toto.blogspot.com/

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  17. Tal Zahn24 February 2011 at 10:30

    That was just amazing... haha!

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  18. Anonymous24 February 2011 at 10:54

    This is so amazing!

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  19. Dwrek24 February 2011 at 13:43

    I have a preorder for one.

    World of Warcraft Cheats@
    http://www.blizzardhacks.com

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  20. Paranormal Explorer24 February 2011 at 14:24

    I want one lol.

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  21. ScottD24 February 2011 at 21:03

    very cool. I havnt seen that yet.

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  22. Garth24 February 2011 at 21:39

    i wonder if i can rent one somewhere....

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  23. Meghan Moran25 February 2011 at 10:45

    that second video is one of the craziest things i've ever seem

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  24. Tasty26 February 2011 at 06:30

    hmmm.... gliding dune-buggy is what comes to mind. :)

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  25. Double C8 March 2011 at 11:52

    hahah.... Angry birds. Good stuff. Following.

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  26. Chandra22 March 2011 at 18:39

    Oh my gosh, I thought I'd never see the day. Love your blog, by the way! :)

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